The News Herald (Willoughby, OH)
‘S-Q’S ME!’
ACROSS
1 Philbin’s onetime
morning co-host
8 Equality-promoting
org.
12 Those who believe everything has a spirit
20 Off base
21 Small songbird
22 Patronized
a restaurant
23 Prodigality?
25 Emmy-winning actor on
“The West Wing”
26 Spinny pool shot
27 Direct (toward)
29 Part of many German
names
30 “Ready?” response
33 Hog seller?
38 Chefs’ hats
40 Corp. budget item
41 1969 self-titled
jazz album
42 Salad alternative
43 Trouble maker
46 Depend (on)
48 Letters of warning on
internet sites
52 Radiologist’s
tool, for short
53 Cigar City, so-called on account of a former major industry
54 A part of Life?
55 Irritate
56 Suffix with market
57 Mr. Magoo biopic?
Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 4,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). 62 Actress Thurman
63 N.Y.C. subway letters
65 High school
sweethearts
66 “____ said …”
68 Birthplace of Emily
Dickinson
71 Sloppy sort
72 Roadblock
73 Canadian coin,
informally
74 Like rebate coupons,
typically
78 “How cool!”
79 Actor Kilmer
80 Cuckoo or dodo?
83 Locale for a flock
86 Nonreactive
88 Abbr. in a
military title
89 Dark times,
informally
90 Trickster
91 Mariner’s org.
92 Small
93 Resembling down
95 General ____ chicken
96 Buccaneer’s quaff
98 Was on a crowded
bus, say
100 Soprano Renata
102 Prepares
cube steak?
107 Altar sites
108 A/C stat
109 Gay who wrote “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold”
110 “I ____ talking
to you!”
112 The “E” of E.D.
114 All-day gripe
sessions?
121 Like a rope
in tug of war 122 Northern Iraqi
123 Alter ego on
“The Simpsons”
124 Tightwads’ opposites
125 Hungers
126 Questionable
DOWN
1 Ones in a mess,
informally
2 Question: Abbr.
3 Pot-au-____
(French stew)
4 Basis of the plot
of “Gone Girl”
5 Like Corinthian
columns
6 Bacilli shapes
7 Habiliments
8 Cobbler’s tool
9 Vineyard designation
10 ____ Cayes
(Haitian port)
11 Not related?
12 Gilbert who wrote “Love and Death on Long Island”
13 Rosetta Stone
discovery site
14 In a senseless way
15 Deranged, in slang
16 Polish movie named Best Foreign Language Film of 2014
17 Work out
18 Henry VII’s house
19 Lee who co-created
the Avengers
24 Not an elective: Abbr.
28 Flower colored by Aphrodite’s blood, in myth
30 “You know
who this is” 31 “A Visit From St.
Nicholas” poet
32 Ways out of embarrassing situations?
34 Polished
35 It may have a
ring to it
36 Enero a diciembre
37 Civil rights
activist Guinier
39 Laker legend with a size 22 sneaker, informally
44 Something absolutely
necessary
45 Fast-paced two-player
card game
47 Munchies, say
49 Enumerations of
things to be sat on?
50 Is plenty angry
51 Song words before “the World” and “the Champions”
53 Like pre-1917 Russia
55 Green shells
58 Animal with a flexible
snout
59 Early title for Julius
Caesar
60 Brightest star
in Orion
61 Apollo 11’s
Eagle, for short
64 What Lionel
Messi wears
67 Brazil’s ____ Bernardo do Campo
68 Choreographer Ailey
69 2016 film set
in Polynesia
70 Et ____ (footnote
abbr.)
72 Document certifiers,
for short 74 Countenance
75 Sorting category on
iTunes
76 Vacuum-tube
component
77 Cousin of
a spoonbill
81 Alleged psychic exposed by the Amazing Randi
82 Co-authors Margret
and H.A. 84 Theatricalize
85 Lhasa ____ (dogs)
87 “Old World Style”
pasta sauce brand
92 Glacial deposit
93 Opposition
94 Easy question
95 “I dare you
to do better!”
97 Snitched on,
with “out” 99 Lucy’s place, in
a Beatles song
101 “Impossible!”
102 Leash, e.g.
103 Line (up)
104 Ones on the outsides
of brackets
105 “Yuck!”
106 Forgeries
108 Pot growers?
111 Kind of vaccine 113 Cardboard container:
Abbr.
115 “____ pasa?”
116 Decorative
garden item
117 Source of much of
Google’s income
118 Fictional creature made from heat and slime
119 Unspecified degree
120 ____ milk